This is the story of a family told through its members, its places, its satellites. A clan leader in love with his queen, who unknowingly lives a countdown. A half-sister who no longer wants to speak to anyone for the rest of her days. A violent and remorseless son who hides behind a screen. An aunt who seeks to heal herself through spiritualism sessions. A mother who prefers hunting to lullabies. A second cousin who throws stones. In the ticking of an ancestral clock or to the sound of a war drum, secrets are revealed, bonds are created or broken according to the tremors, lives begin or end in the same gravitational field that has the family home as its center.